HMD truly had a great first year selling Nokia phones, and 2018 should be even better

Among the most not likely success stories in a very long time in the constantly competitive and typically vicious mobile market might still be unfolding prior to our eyes, as HMD Global’s excellent very first year continues to get rave evaluations from all the significant marketing research companies.

The Finland-based unique Nokia brand name licensee was in some way efficient in going from 0 to 4.4 million system deliveries in simply 12 months, inning accordance with modified price quotes created by Counterpoint Research study partner Neil Shah.

That’s 4.4 million Nokia mobile phones delivered worldwide in the October– December 2017 quarter alone, mind you, which was apparently a much better Q4 outcome than the ones published by HTC, Sony, Google, Lenovo and OnePlus, to name a few.

Presuming the previous numbers were proper, HMD most likely offered north of 8.5 million mobile phones in overall in 2015, regardless of making its international market launching in earnest throughout Q2. Think it or not, TrendForce experts believe Apple and Nokia are the only global brand names with a “clear future of development in 2018”, and the market heavyweight turned underdog turned increasing star might manage a production volume going beyond 20 million systems this year.

Ranked 11 th on the planet in vacation sales, Nokia might quickly make the total 2018 leading 10 for mobile phones in addition to gaining back dumb phone dominance. Currently, IDC Research Study Director Francisco Jeronimo states HMD was the 2nd biggest gamer in the function phone sector in 2017, delivering an astonishing 59.2 million systems, probably thanks in big part to an extremely effective brand-new 3310.

Nokia function phones were top worldwide in Q4, inning accordance with Neil Shah, and top of the European ranks for the whole year, inning accordance with Jeronimo. The restored brand name was top in between October and December in Vietnam and “most” Middle East markets in regards to total phone sales, number 3 in UK mobile phone deliveries, and number 6 worldwide when integrating wise and dumb phones. Can you think we’re still discussing a business that didn’t exist till December 2016?